Hello, I'm Sean Curran and this is yesterday in Parliament from BBC Radio 4.

There was no red box outside Downing Street and no pre-statement leaks, but there was plenty of sound and fury when Rachel Reeves updated MPs on the state of the UK's finances

on Tuesday the 3rd of March. It was like Prime Minister's questions had come a day early.

There were loud cheers from the government benches when the Prime Minister and the Chancellor arrived in the Commons together.

But this moment belonged to Rachel Reeves, and it was noisy and rowdy right from the start.

Mr Speaker, this government has the right economic plan for our country.

A plan...

A plan? A plan, a plan that is...

Order, order, sorry.

Look, both sides. If you're not interested, please, you don't have to stay in the chamber.

Over the next 23 minutes, Rachel Reeves repeatedly used the word stability as she updated

the Commons on the state of the economy, based on official forecasts prepared by the Office

for Budget Responsibility. In the past, these occasions have seen chancellors produce an

economic rabbit from a metaphorical top hat, But there were no policy announcements this time.

The big surprise, the US-Israeli war on Iran,

had come at the weekend after the latest forecast had been prepared.

A plan that is even more important in a world that in the last few days

has become yet more uncertain.

With unfolding conflict in Iran and the Middle East, it is incumbent on me and on this government to charter course through that

uncertainty, to secure our economy against shocks and protect families from the turbulence that we

see beyond our borders. To Labour

cheers, she argued that the latest forecasts showed her plan was working. Inflation is down.

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